Re: A help document i would like to have

[Noeck]

Hi Vincenzo,

yes, I think I've understood. I meant, you can modify my file with the
engravers to your liking or you can start from scratch.

Here are two suggestions :
1) Using annotations (balloonGrobText - what a name) to objects in a
pseudo-realistic context
2) As a table of symbols. The example below is just a starting point or
an illustration. It would need more work to make it look nice.

Joram



\version "2.18.2"

\paper {
  top-margin = 3\cm
  markup-system-spacing #'basic-distance = 20
  score-markup-spacing #'basic-distance = 30
}
\markup "1) Using annotations to objects in a pseudo-realistic context"
\new Score \with {
  \consists "Balloon_engraver"
  \balloonLengthOff
  \override BalloonTextItem.annotation-balloon = ##f
}
{
  \balloonGrobText #'Clef #'(0 . -2)
  \markup \column { "clef" "Notenschlüssel" "chiave" }
  \balloonGrobText #'TimeSignature #'(0 . 3)
  \markup \column { "time signature" "Taktart" "segni di tempo" }
  a b
  \balloonGrobText #'NoteHead #'(1 . -2)
  \markup \column { "note" "Note" "nota" }
  c'
}

\markup \column {
  \line { "2) As a table of symbols:" }
  \line { "This is a bad table."
    "It could be done much easier with lilypond-book." }
  \line { \musicglyph #"clefs.G" "clef, Notenschlüssel, chiave" }
  \line { \musicglyph #"timesig.C44"
    "time signature, Taktart, segni di tempo" }
}